Ubuntu Server graphical interface?

[Martin Hess]

Jonathan points out that it needs good configuration reporting  
capabilities:

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> The other requirement that needs to be there is reporting ablity.   
> One of things that Landscape is currently lacking from what I have  
> heard.  The ability to manage a large group of computers, report  
> back on the inventory of the machine (hardware, software, users) and  
> create custom reports for the entire enterprise.  An example:  Give  
> me all of my servers that have X amount of RAM, plus available slots  
> to put more memory in.
>
> Also once this tool is created, expand it more importanlty to my  
> clients.  So now I can have one piece of management software that I  
> can manage my entire infrastructre across and deploy patches,  
> install software, setup, create and deploy confirautions and report  
> across the entire enterprise.  You get that piece of software that  
> is open source and you will find on of the critical holes.
>
> Jonathan


So here are the general requirements so far:

1) Optional - must not be required for Ubuntu Server
2) Secure - must not have known security issues, must have good known  
security architecture
3) Scalable - must be able to administer sets of machines
4) Open Source
5) Easy to use (and setup*) - for 1 or more machines
* I just added the the "setup" part. It seems like that is pretty  
important for a single machine use case. If people have to spend a lot  
of time just getting it working for a single machine then it isn't  
going to get much acceptance.

And these are the major feature categories:

1) Package management
2) User management
3) Security updates
4) Repository management
5) System monitoring
7) Service management (starting/stopping/monitoring)
8) Service configuring
	- router
	- dhcp
	- web
	- dns
	- firewall
	- ids - snort
	- ect...
9) Change management
	- track changes
	- control changes
	- rollback changes
10) Configuration reporting
	- HW
	- SW
	- Users
	- Global custom reports


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